ITEMS OF INTEREST

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 14 November 1928, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Miss L. Haswell of Ilawera, was a week-end visitor to Paten recently.

“When woman adopted short skirts she lost her charm of illusion, according to some critics,” says a fashion expert, Ltdy Victor Paget, in the “Dispatch.” “1 say definitely that skirts will remain longer and continue descending-. ’ ’

Those who remember the Hon. Gluts. Hill-'Trovor, when he was in New Zealand as private secretary to Lord Ranfurly, riray be interested to hear lie has a son and heir (says the “Christchurch Press.”) The bells ,of Chirk Parish Church pealed merrily in honour of the event. He succeeded to the title of Lord Trevor of Bregnkinalt near Wrexham, Worth Wales, in J 023, when his half-brother ’George died, and is the third of the line. The Barony was conferred tipon thtar father in ISSO. Lord Trevor was a bachelor till he was 63, when he married Miss Phyllis Sims, who had nursed him through a serious illness. She was 23 at the time, and whs the daughter of a plumber of Kirton-iu-Limlrey, a village in Lincolnshire.

Standing on the roof of a house, with bombs in one hand anti a dagger in the 'other, a Mohammedan surgeon at Meerut, in the presence of a crowd of several;thousands, defied the police. He had quarrelled with his wife, and went with, ten bombs to the house where she was staying. On the way he met his brother-in-law, whom he blow to pieces. Ho threw other bombs, slightly injuring his wife and their small son. Then he barricladed himself in the house and, in reply to a challenge to surrender, hurled more bombs, injuring several persons in the crowd. Ultimately, shot in the leg by a constable, the surgeon was arrested and taken to hospital. Whore he is recovering from 'an overdose of opium.